American Journal of Sociology

Papers
(The TQCC of American Journal of Sociology is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
:Sun Ra’s Chicago: Afrofuturism and the City74
Book Reviewers for Volume 13049
Revolution or Incursion? Academic Sociologists and Gender in the 21st Century31
:The Power of Organizations: A New Approach to Organizational Theory25
Ethnography’s Laborious Crossing24
: The Economy of Promises: Trust, Power, and Credit in America23
: Sons, Daughters, and Sidewalk Psychotics: Mental Illness and Homelessness in Los Angeles23
We Need More Data23
When Truth Trumps Facts: Studies on Partisan Moral Flexibility in American Politics22
The Coupled Dynamics of Neighborhood and School Change22
What Makes a Decision Fair? Relative Earnings, Gender, and Justifications for Couples’ Decision-Making22
Queer Stepfamilies: The Path to Social and Legal Recognition. By Katie L. Acosta. New York: New York University Press, 2021. Pp. x+258. $30.00 (paper).21
Wealth Begins at Home: The Housing Benefits of the 1944 GI Bill and the Reproduction of Black-White Inequality in Homeownership and Home Value21
:Moving the Needle: What Tight Labor Markets Do for the Poor18
Editor's Page18
Review Essay: Young, Gifted, and Black18
:Creative Control: The Ambivalence of Work in the Culture Industries18
:How Civic Action Works: Fighting for Housing in Los Angeles18
:Unsaid: Analyzing Harmful Silences17
:Making Women Pay: Microfinance in Urban India17
:The Immigration Law Death Penalty: Aggravated Felonies, Deportation, and Legal Resistance14
Editor’s Page14
Intersectional Complexity in Stereotype Content13
: Play to Submission: Gaming Capitalism in a Tech Firm13
Stimulating (In)equality? The Earnings Penalty in Different-Sex and Female Same-Sex Couples Transitioning to Parenthood in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden13
Locally Ensconced and Globally Integrated: How Network Cohesion and Range Relate to a Language-Based Model of Organizational Identification13
Skill Diversification Beyond High-Paying Jobs13
:On Shifting Ground: Constructing Manhood on the Margins13
Contents of Volume 12812
:The Government of Emergency: Vital Systems, Expertise, and the Politics of Security12
Rearranging the Desk Chairs: A Large Randomized Field Experiment on the Effects of Close Contact on Interethnic Relations12
:The Arab Spring Abroad: Diaspora Activism against Authoritarian Regimes12
Black Privilege: Modern Middle-Class Blacks with Credentials and Cash to Spend. By Cassi Pittman Claytor. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2020. Pp. 217. $85.00 (cloth); $26.00 (pap12
:The Holy Vote: Inequality and Anxiety among White Evangelicals12
The Diverging Paths of Black-White Segregation in Urban America, 1970–199011
Between-Firm Inequality and Informal Social Relations11
Contributors List11
Carceral Passages: Coming of Age in Prison America11
:Indigenous Memory, Urban Reality: Stories of American Indian Relocation and Reclamation11
Kinship in Black and White Families: The Strength of Horizontal Ties10
The Great Refusal: The West, the Rest, and the New Regulations on Homosexuality, 1970–201510
:The Channels of Student Activism: How the Left and Right Are Winning (and Losing) in Campus Politics Today9
:Making a Scene: Urban Landscapes, Gentrification, and Social Movements in Sweden9
Contents of Volume 1299
:Social Democratic Capitalism9
Migration and Hybrid Political Regimes: Navigating the Legal Landscape in Russia. By Rustamjon Urinboyev. Oakland: University of California Press, 2021. Pp. xi+169. $34.95 (paper).8
:The Tolls of Uncertainty: How Privilege and the Guilt Gap Shape Unemployment in America8
Postcolonial Reckonings and Arrival8
:Epidemic Orientalism: Race, Capital, and the Governance of Infectious Disease8
:Dispossession and Dissent: Immigrants and the Struggle for Housing in Madrid7
Changing Women in a Changing Society at 50: A Symposium7
Global Mega-Science: Universities, Research Collaborations, and Knowledge Production7
: Alt-Labor and the New Politics of Workers’ Rights7
:The Sympathetic Consumer: Moral Critique in Capitalist Culture7
Authoritarian Absorption: The Transnational Remaking of Epidemic Politics in China7
Contributors6
Front Matter6
: Uncertainty: Individual Problems and Public Solutions6
Acknowledgment to Referees6
:Trapped in a Maze: How Social Control Institutions Drive Family Poverty and Inequality6
Editor's Page6
Slavery’s Carceral Legacy6
:Time for Things: Labor, Leisure, and the Rise of Mass Consumption6
:The Digital Departed: How We Face Death, Commemorate Life, and Chase Virtual Immortality6
(Not) Feeling the Past: Boredom as a Racialized Emotion6
: Reunited: Family Separation and Central American Youth Migration5
:Buried in the Red Dirt: Race, Reproduction, and Death in Modern Palestine5
:Seeking Western Men: Email-Order Brides under China’s Global Rise5
A Good Reputation: How Residents Fight for an American Barrio5
:Unlivable Lives: Violence and Identity in Transgender Activism5
Exams, Meritocracy, and Disenchantment with the Chinese Dream5
:How Green Became Good: Urbanized Nature and the Making of Cities and Citizens5
:Normalized Financial Wrongdoing: How Re-regulating Markets Created Risks and Fostered Inequality4
Contributors4
:Surviving Solitary: Living and Working in Restricted Housing Units4
Race by Law for Asian Americans4
:Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry’s Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness4
:The City and the Hospital: The Paradox of Medically Overserved Communities4
:The Indebted Woman: Kinship, Sexuality, and Capitalism3
Not in My Gayborhood: Gay Neighborhoods and the Rise of the Vicarious Citizen 3
Front Matter3
Front Matter3
Front Matter3
Market and Nonmarket Pathways to Home Ownership and Social Stratification in Hybrid Housing Regimes: Evidence from Four Post-Soviet Countries3
No Differential Effects of Classroom Ethnic Composition on Native and Immigrant Friendship Segregation: Comment on Smith et al., 20163
:A Spark in the Smokestacks: Environmental Organizing in Beijing Middle-Class Communities3
Front Matter3
Organizing Penal-Welfare Hybridity: Trauma, Vulnerability, and State Recognition of Crime Victims3
Front Matter2
:Democracy on the Ground: Local Politics in Latin America’s Left Turn2
: Structured Luck: Downstream Effects of the U.S. Diversity Visa Program2
A Victim’s Shoe, a Broken Watch, and Marbles: Desire Objects and Human Rights2
Misery Beneath the Miracle in East Asia2
:You’re Paid What You’re Worth: And Other Myths of the Modern Economy2
:Soaking the Middle Class: Suburban Inequality and Recovery from Disaster2
:Engaged and Evade: How Latino Immigrant Families Manage Surveillance in Everyday Life2
:Trade and Nation: How Companies and Politics Reshaped Economic Thought2
Contents of Volume 1312
The Leniency of Low Expectations: Parental Incarceration, Race, and Teachers’ Evaluations of Student Writing2
The Contagion of Labor: Linking Workplace Copresence and Occupational Mobility Patterns2
:The Souls of White Jokes: How Racist Humor Fuels White Supremacy2
Lesbian, Feminist, and Other Queer Roles: Fifty Years of Inclusion and Exclusion in Sociology2
Gendered Market Devices: The Persistence of Gender Discrimination in Insurance Markets2
Contributors2
Representational Hierarchies in Social Movements: A Case Study of the Undocumented Immigrant Youth Movement2
Atlantic Reconstruction: Democracy, Abolition, and the Making of Political Personhood1
:Worldmaking in the Long Great War: How Local and Colonial Struggles Shaped the Modern Middle East1
:Second-Class Daughters: Black Brazilian Women and Informal Adoption as Modern Slavery1
From Conflict to Cohesion: Structural Similarity Dampens Uncivil Discourse in Polarized Social Groups1
:Indefinite: Doing Time in Jail1
Time Is Money? Wage Premiums and Penalties for Time-Related Occupational Demands1
Market Design as Organizational Problem: Explaining System Failures in Platform Markets1
Contributors1
:Hurricane Harvey’s Aftermath: Place, Race, and Inequality in Disaster Recovery1
Symposium Introductory Images1
Front Matter1
Green American City: Civic Capacity and the Distributed Adoption of Urban Innovations1
Ruling Culture: Art Police, Tomb Robbers, and the Rise of Cultural Power in Italy. By Fiona Greenland. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. Pp. 257. $105.00 (cloth); $35.00 (paper).1
Deportation’s Fallout: Evidence from Denmark1
:Beyond Doubt: The Secularization of Society1
The Contradictions and Challenges of Feminist Mentoring1
:Medicine at the Margins: EMS Workers in Urban America1
Cross-Cutting Preferences in Interactional Trajectories Toward Violence0
:The Labor of Hope: Meritocracy and Precarity in Egypt0
:The Spiritual Turn: The Religion of the Heart and the Making of Romantic Liberal Modernity0
:Violence of Democracy: Interparty Conflict in South India0
Competition and Gender Inequality: A Comprehensive Analysis of Effects and Mechanisms0
The Influence of Extended Kin on Educational Achievement: An Examination of Cousin Order and Cousin Group Size0
Contributors0
: Agents of God: Boundaries and Authority in Muslim and Christian Schools0
:Grandmothering While Black: A Twenty-First-Century Story of Love, Coercion, and Survival0
Money and Meaning in the Climate Change Debate: Organizational Power, Cultural Resonance, and the Shaping of American Media Discourse0
:The Accidental Equalizer: How Luck Determines Pay After College0
:Management Divided: Contradictions of Labor Management0
:Violent Affections: Queer Sexuality, Techniques of Power and Law in Russia0
Racial Disparity in Leadership: Evidence of Valuative Bias in the Promotions of National Football League Coaches0
:At Risk: Indian Sexual Politics and the Global AIDS Crisis0
:Hope and Honor: Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust0
: Policing Patients: Treatment and Surveillance on the Frontlines of the Opioid Crisis0
:States of Belonging: Immigration Policies, Attitudes, and Inclusion0
:Popular Politics and the Path to Durable Democracy0
Two Primitive Accumulations Behind Party Articulation: Bolivia’s MNR (1952–1964)0
:Claiming Belonging: Muslim American Advocacy in an Era of Islamophobia0
:The Logic of Social Science0
Advancing Ethnography and Mechanisms of Misinheritance During the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration0
:The Quest for Sexual Health: How an Elusive Ideal has Transformed Science, Politics, and Everyday Life0
:The Urban Brain: Mental Health in the Vital City0
How Parents Invest in Their Children’s Cultural Capital Throughout Schooling: Reply0
Noncitizen Justice: The Criminal Case Processing of Non-US Citizens in Texas and California0
Crime Pays the Victim: Criminal Fines, the State, and Victim Compensation Law 1964–19840
Contributors0
Title IX, Campus Sexual Misconduct, and the Criminalization of a US Civil Rights Law0
Migration Studies and Colonialism. By Lucy Mayblin and Joe Turner. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2021. Pp. vi+246. $29.95.0
:Constructing Community: Urban Governance, Development, and Inequality in Boston0
Contributors List0
Book Reviewers for Volume 1290
: Handcrafted Careers: Working the Artisan Economy of Craft Beers0
Who’s Afraid of Sociology?0
:Getting It, Having It, Keeping It Up: Straight Men’s Sexuality in Public and Private0
:The Policing Machine: Enforcement, Endorsements, and the Illusion of Public Input0
The Great Separation: Top Earner Segregation at Work in Advanced Capitalist Economies0
:Urban Specters: The Everyday Harms of Racial Capitalism0
Welfare Drug Bans and Criminal Legal Cycling0
:Mapping the Transnational World: How We Move and Communicate across Borders and Why It Matters0
: When Schools Work: Pluralist Politics and Institutional Reform in Los Angeles0
:Practicing Sociology: Tacit Knowledge for the Social Scientific Craft0
Contributors0
(Dis)orderly Bodies: Gender Identification and Disability in Social Context0
Contents of Volume 1300
Effort Traps: Socially Structured Striving and the Reproduction of Disadvantage0
:Green Card Soldier: Between Model Immigrant and Security Threat0
:Vehicles of Decolonization: Public Transit in the Palestinian West Bank0
US Dominant Achievement Ideology Fuels Inequality0
Reach and Retrenchment of the Environmental State: Global Climate Politics in the Amazon Rainforest0
Engineering Inequality: Informal Coaching, Glass Walls, and Social Closure in Silicon Valley0
:Good News for Common Goods: Multicultural Evangelicalism and Ethical Democracy in America0
: Counterrevolution: The Crusade to Roll Back the Gains of the Civil Rights Movement0
:Dangerous Fun: The Social Lives of Big Wave Surfers0
Front Matter0
:Genomic Citizenship: The Molecularization of Identity in the Contemporary Middle East0
The Decline of Global Inequality in the 21st Century: Reconsidering the Industrial Transformation Thesis0
Front Matter0
Acknowledgments to Referees0
:We, Together: The Social Ontology of Us0
:Revolution in Development: Mexico and the Governance of the Global Economy0
:Whiteness Interrupted: White Teachers and Racial Identity in Predominantly Black Schools0
:Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley0
:A Few Good Gays: The Gendered Compromises behind Military Inclusion0
:Punishing Places: The Geography of Mass Imprisonment0
Front Matter0
:Polished: College, Class, and the Burdens of Social Mobility0
: Mobilizing at the Urban Margins: Citizenship and Patronage Politics in Post-Dictatorial Chile0
Contributors0
Walking the Moral Tightrope: Federal Civil Servants’ Loyalties, Caution, and Resistance under the Trump Administration0
:All the News That’s Fit to Click: How Metrics Are Transforming the Work of Journalists0
Racial Discrimination in Context: The Role of Organizational Policies and Practices in Hiring Discrimination0
:Equal Partners? How Dual-Professional Couples Make Career, Relationship, and Family Decisions0
Where the Hood At? Fifty Years of Change in Black Neighborhoods0
:From Chinatown to Every Town: How Chinese Immigrants Have Expanded the Restaurant Business in the United States0
Gender Bound: Making, Managing, and Navigating Prison Gender Boundaries, 1941–20180
What Makes a Contact Valuable? Hiring, Organizational Networks and the Advantages of Network Closure0
:Brewing Resistance: Indian Coffee House and the Emergency in Postcolonial India0
Front Matter0
The Control Boom: US Interior Immigration Enforcement, 1971–20100
:The Punishment of Pirates: Interpretation and Institutional Order in the Early Modern British Empire0
:Black Culture, Inc.: How Ethnic Community Support Pays for Corporate America0
Front Matter0
:Revolutions in Cuba and Venezuela: One Hope, Two Realities0
:Scripting the Moves: Culture and Control in a “No-Excuses” Charter School0
Elaborating Embodied Boundaries: Medical Expertise and (Trans)Gender Classification0
:Unbottled: The Fight against Plastic Water and for Water Justice0
Appendix0
Entrepreneurship as a Response to Labor Market Discrimination for Formerly Incarcerated People0
Front Matter0
Macro-Micro Interaction in Knowledge Construction: Structural and Communicative Memory in Rwanda and Sierra Leone0
:Willful Defiance: The Movement to Dismantle the School-to-Prison Pipeline0
To Build a Future for Social Theory—What Do We Have to Know about Its Past?0
:The Global Rules of Art: The Emergence and Divisions of a Cultural World Economy0
Walled-In: Arctic Housing and a Sociology of Walls0
Employment Application Criminal Record Questions and Willingness to Apply: A Mixed Method Study of Self-Selection0
Geographic Isolation, Compelled Mobility, and Everyday Exposure to Neighborhood Racial Composition among Urban Youth0
Hostile Environments: State Infrastructural Power and the Exclusion of Unauthorized Migrants in Western Europe0
:The Biomedical Empire: Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic0
Bound by Creativity: How Contemporary Art Is Created and Judged. By Hannah Wohl. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. Pp. 223. $90.00 (cloth); $30.00 (paper).0
Channeling Antipartisan Contention: Field Structures and Partisan Strategies in a Global Protest Wave, 2008–20160
:Eco-Types: Five Ways of Caring about the Environment0
:The Colors of Love: Multiracial People in Interracial Relationships0
The Unintended Consequences of Quantifying Quality: Does Ranking School Performance Shape the Geographical Concentration of Advantage?0
:Saul Alinsky and the Dilemmas of Race: Community Organizing in the Postwar City0
:Stacked Decks: Building Inspectors and the Reproduction of Urban Inequality0
Contributors0
:Before Gentrification: The Creation of DC’s Racial Wealth Gap0
:The Culture Trap: Ethnic Expectations and Unequal Schooling for Black Youth0
: Language Brokers: Children of Immigrants Translating Inequality and Belonging for Their Families0
:Believing in South Central: Everyday Islam in the City of Angels0
Digital Nomads: In Search of Freedom, Community, and Meaningful Work in the New Economy. By Rachael A. Woldoff and Robert C. Litchfield. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. xi+225. $290
:Anonymous: The Performance of Hidden Identities0
Cultural Heterogeneity in Americans’ Definitions of Racism, Sexism, and Classism: Results from a Mixed-Methods Study0
:Resurrecting the Jew: Nationalism, Philosemitism, and Poland’s Jewish Revival0
:Building a Better Chicago: Race and Community Resistance to Urban Redevelopment0
On Settler Colonialism, Its Critics, and Its Critics’ Critics0
: Late Modernity in Crisis: Why We Need a Theory of Society0
Contributors0
:Banished Men: How Migrants Endure the Violence of Deportation0
:A New Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere and Deliberative Politics0
Red and Blue Immigrants: Political (Mis)Alignment, Immigration Attitudes, and the Boundaries of American National Inclusion0
Contributors0
The Changing Role of Managers0
:Mosques in the Metropolis: Incivility, Caste, and Contention in Europe0
The Shadow of Peasant Past: Seven Generations of Inequality Persistence in Northern Sweden0
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